As the planet warms, thanks to our gas-guzzling cars and power-producing factories, the polar bear's frozen habitat is disappearing.
IMechE says this process is only 25% efficient but it is massively improved by co-siting the cryo-generator next to an industrial plant or power station producing low-grade heat that is currently vented and being released into the atmosphere.
In 10-15 years Astrium hopes it will be possible to deploy a complete, small-scale orbiting power station producing significantly more than that from its own solar cells.
The prospect of getting a piece of that growth has fueled the stocks of companies such as Sunpower, the leader in producing traditional silicon solar-power panels, and First Solar, whose thin-film solar panels are cheaper to manufacture but are less efficient.
Less than a year into office, Culver is making a serious case for Iowa--already the leading ethanol producing state in the nation--to become the leader in wind power as well.
Finally, the fact remains that Nintendo is simply not that interested in producing an expensive, high-power machine.
This comes against a backdrop in which prices may already be low relative to costs and worries about possible power shortages disrupting mining operations in the key PGM-producing nation of South African, Melek added.
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He's saved coin by both brokering co-production deals on big-budget shows (by co-producing Crusoe with British producer company Power Entertainment, NBC minimizes its financial contribution and risk) and including more paying advertisers in his shows (his iteration of Knight Rider stars a Ford car).
First, fusion research failed to progress as quickly as expected, so there were no power stations producing streams of surplus plasma to fuel fusion-torch recyclers.
Nevertheless, many environmentalists fiercely resist any moves to ease arbitrary, prohibitive barriers to the construction of the best non-carbon-dioxide-producing energy source of all: nuclear power plants.
These are enviable conditions for ripening Cabernet Sauvignon-producing wines with a strong depth of color, good tannic structure, power and suppleness.
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Power Technology is on the verge of producing what it claims is a revolutionary lightweight lead-acid battery but has yet to find any potential customers.
The cost of producing solar electricity by large solar power plants plummeted from 31 cents per kilowatt-hour in 2009 to 14 cents per kilowatt-hour in 2012.
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